🥾 Walk 678 - Pangbourne, Sulham and Little Heath

On Sunday 17th November we had our Annual General Meeting, where we elect our new committee who will look after the BWWs for the next year. We held the AGM in Pangbourne Village Hall and, as usual, we had a short (six mile) walk beforehand.

By chance, we'd chosen a good day for it, with blues skies, sunshine and very little wind. A welcome contrast to the gloomy grey weather we've had for the past few weeks. I don't know if it was the fine weather or the excitement of an AGM that persuaded 27 people to come out today. (I suspect it was the fine weather.)

The walk started by walking into the village and taking a lane that served a few cottages before becoming a footpath following the River Pang. Crossing a couple of fields brought us to Sulham Wood, with it's trees still bearing some golden leaves.

A footpath took us through the north end of the wood before we left it for footpath across open fields to Vicarage Wood. Another footpath took us close to Little Heath before doubling back at Hallplace Farm. A track took us past Sulham House and St Nicholas' Church and a footpath brought us back to Sulham Wood.

Here there were a number of fallen trees for us to sit on and have our packed lunches.

After lunch, we continued our walk along a footpath running along the lower edge of the wood, which brought us to the place where we'd first entered it. We then returned to the village hall, largely following our outward route, arriving at 1:40pm in plenty of time for our AGM which started at 2pm. See our route on Google Maps.

The AGM itself was fairly quick, finishing by 2:30, but included time for people to get tea, coffee or a soft drink and enjoy some of the homemade cakes and biscuits on offer, provided by volunteers from the group. Thank you to all the volunteers.

Thanks go to Emma and Rob for leading this walk and Rob for the write-up.

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